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This chronicle of the life and work of Dorothea Lange (1895-1965) richly portrays one of America's most celebrated photographers. The woman behind the camera is revealed - in sixty duotone photographs (many never published before), in excerpts from her letters, journal entries, and taped conversations, and in the words of seven essayists who, together develop a full vision of Lange as artist, woman, mother, and activist.